Kashif Ali
Pediatrics · Houston, TXNPI 1235248873
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,506 payments — averaging $12,707 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$14.3M
- Pfizer$3.8M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$306K
- GSK$235K
- Merck$225K
- Eli Lilly$157K
- plus $153K from 11 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $3650.22 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$11K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$59999%
- Education$61%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 1,042 | $14,267,556 |
| Pfizer | 265 | $3,794,091 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 60 | $305,638 |
| GSK | 86 | $234,671 |
| Merck | 16 | $224,753 |
| Eli Lilly | 1 | $157,318 |
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 7 | $75,831 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 3 | $45,223 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 7 | $31,384 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $110 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $103 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 7 | $96 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- CAMZYOS$110
How this compares
$19,136,898 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Houston
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
- Pedro PiedraHouston$2.9M
- Homero GarzaHouston$1.7M
- Vernon SuttonHouston$1.2M
- Daniel GlazeHouston$981K
- Naila SiddiqiHouston$642K
- Michael WanglerHouston$459K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.